Events:
February 18, 2013,
Exhibition

In the December 6 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, “In Bellows’s art one finds, especially in his early pictures, which are among the most beautiful made by an American, that his subject is elusive. It seems to be simply an exuberance in being alive.”

In the January 10 issue, Ian Buruma writes, “It is a common belief that Japanese are almost congenitally incapable of facing the horrors of the war they unleashed. Some of the art in MoMA’s new show should help to dispel that caricature.”

When the City of Rome decided to sell off the eighteenth-century horseshoe theatre a group of outraged (and talented) citizens took it over as squatters. Thanks to them, the Teatro Valle Occupato presents a full program of theatre and music.

Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) romanced Lucrezia Borgia, climbed Mount Etna and invented the semicolon. Titian painted his portrait. An exhibition in Padua focuses on the man and his collection, both extraordinary.